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- Subject: RE: [atlarge-discuss] On the ALAC's Request for Comments
- From: "Abel Wisman" <abel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 10:21:06 +0100
Pls add my name too
Abel
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From: DannyYounger@xxxxxx [mailto:DannyYounger@xxxxxx]
Sent: 22 April 2003 01:25
To: atlarge-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [atlarge-discuss] On the ALAC's Request for Comments
This moronic plan surely must have been conceived by the feeble-minded
idiots
and stooges that participated as members of the At-Large Assistance
Group --
it has all the hallmarks of a document hand-written by ICANN staff and
rubber-stamped by the ICANN Board's hand-picked puppets (who apparently
are
too ignorant or too naive to understand that they are only being used as
a
conveniently pliable tool to promote the fiction that ICANN is in
compliance
with task number nine under the Memorandum of Understanding with the
U.S.
Department of Commerce).
Having witnessed the complete and total elimination of all public
representation on the ICANN Board these fools on the At-Large Advisory
Committee now expect the Internet community to rally around a top-down
effort
designed to asininely further complicate communication between
individual
users and members of the ICANN Board.
In the past, any individual user could write a letter to ICANN and feel
confident that they would be ignored (as it has become rather apparent
that
ICANN only bothers to pay attention to those special-interest groups it
deems
to be "stakeholders" in its Cartel). Now one has to do all of the
following
in order to achieve the same outcome:
1. First one must find a noncommercial entity to join.
2. Next, one needs to convince the members of this non-profit group
that
they must post on their website information that pertains to ICANN
activities/issues, and further convince them to offer Internet-based
discussion mechanisms so that such activities/issues may be evaluated.
3. Then it next becomes necessary to convince this noncommercial group
that
they must provide information on the group's general funding sources to
the
ALAC (so that this Committee of pseudo-accountants/analysts can
ostensibly
come to a determination as to whether the non-profit has commitments or
obligations that would conflict with its ability to involve and
represent
individual constituents' interests).
4. At this point, one must now confirm that somewhere on the non-profit
group's website is an articulation of its non-commercial goals and
structure,
a description of constituent group(s), its working mechanisms,
leadership,
and contact(s) -- unlike the ALAC which has no posted working
mechanisms, an
incomplete structure, no contact data on its discussion list (the e-mail
addresses of all the "representatives" are replaced with XXXXX), no
working
public forum and no publicly archived public comments.
5. Then, the non-profit must be convinced to submit in electronic form
a
completed application and to provide the ALAC any further requested
documentation (which may include references, documents to verify general
funding sources, documents on the organization's leadership and
operations,
and documents that demonstrate the identity of all their individual
constituents -- has anyone on this Committee ever heard of the concept
of
privacy?). The non-profit must also be convinced that it must
necessarily
subject itself to the prospect of further possible interviews regarding
the
organization's contact(s) and must potentially provide other as yet
unspecified information about the organization.
6. If the ALAC then decides to designate this organization as an
eligible
"structure", the user that wishes to communicate with the ICANN Board
must
next find at least three other such structures (that must be located in
at
least two countries) and must persuade these structures to form a
regional
organization.
7. In order to form this regional body, the user must then convince
these
other organizations to spend months and months developing a set of
bylaws
that all organizations can agree upon, and then the user must further
convince each non-profit organization to share in the financial burden
of
establishing this new umbrella organization -- that means dedicating
financial resources for the purpose of incorporation, and setting aside
funds
to provide for an organizational website, Secretariat services, and
such. 8. The user must also convince each such non-profit organization
that it's
limited funds should be applied to this glorious experiment instead of
remitting such limited funds as the membership fee for direct
participation
in ICANN's Non-Commercial constituency (which at least gets to
participate in
the election of an ICANN director).
9. If the regional organization is finally created, then the user must
await
the formulation of a formal Memorandum of Understanding with ICANN which
consecrates this effort... (for some reason, this Committee of the
Mentally-Challenged seems to think that the At-Large is so gullible that
it
will willingly enter into a contract with ICANN in the full knowledge
that
ICANN has broken all of its prior promises, ignored the consensus
conclusions
of its own Blue Ribbon Panel (the ALSC) and has gleefully wiped out all
user
representation on its Board).
10. Finally, if this last stage is achieved, the user can then send his
comments to the two members of the ALAC that his regional organization
has
elected. Those two members will then transmit his message to the full
committee that will next proceed to filter, mangle, distort, and
re-write his
comments (after sincerely thanking him for his input). The ALAC will
then
transmit a non-binding "recommendation" to the Board that in turn will
thank
the committee for its efforts before proceeding to ignore the comments
received.
As a user, I don't need this degree of structural bullshit just to
communicate my sentiments directly to ICANN. The problem is not the
lack of
a structured vehicle to serve as a communications conduit... the problem
has
always been that the Board has been comprised of members that can't be
bothered to listen to the voice of the public that they purportedly
serve.
This ALAC plan sucks. Unfortunately, the spineless worms on the
Committee
will never advocate for substantive change. Instead, they will meekly
accept
the bylaws as written and will continue to pretend to "represent" the
At-Large. All hail the Company Union.
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